An old saw runs that freedom for the pike can mean death for the minnow(or at the very least considerable discomfort). News that Indiana Governor Mike Pence(a Republican predictably enough) has signed...

Readers of the British newspaper Daily Mirror(and its Sunday stablemate) mya have noticed that it is currently serializing a series of articles about the murder of the late "Crimewatch" TV presenter J...

Cognoscenti may have noted that Israeli actress Gal Gadot( due to star as Wonder Woman in next year's "Batman v Superman" movie) has been receiving her share of brickbats from the "body fascists"- acc...

News that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu has won a resounding election victory puts me in mind of Pyrrhus's celebrated quip after winning a battle in ancient Greece although at prohi...

Now that the EU embargo on chemicals used in lethal injection( the most popular form of execution in the US) have begun to dry up, some states are"going back to the future" so to speak.(www thetimes....

Did anybody see that Saturday Night Live "digital short" skit of a few years ago entitled "Helen Mirren's Magical Bosom" in which comedienne Nasim Pedrad knocks on the dressing room of Ms Mirren( full...

Did anybody see CCTV footage of the incident in which one woman chest butted an old lady in a Milwaukee parking lot incident in an argument over a parking space.Kezia Perkins reportedly told police th...

This year is of course the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII( V.E.Day in Europe on May 9, and VJ Day in September).Anybody who has ever read DC's Sgt Rock or watched "Band Of Brothers" will be aware...

One big drawback of being a congenital liar is that nobody takes you seriously even when you speak the truth.Case in point: Vladimir Putin's denials that the Kremlin( and by implication himself as an ...

Vladimir Putin's plan for an "Eurasian Union" in which the Russian Federation would presumably dominate the former Soviet republics like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan , the rump government of "Novorossiya"( ...

By now everyone has presumably heard of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani's claim that President Obama "doesn't love America as we do" at a Manhattan GOP fundraiser.Am I the only person who thinks that t...

As I have frequently observed on this blog, you could NOT make these things up even if you wanted to do(which I don't BTW)!Today's newspapers( www.independent.co.uk, www.dailyexpress.co.uk, February 1...

More about the stupidity and intellectual dishonesty of the far left. Once idly going through the website of "Young Americans For Freedom" (www.yaf.org) I came across a call for students to "boycott A...

Be careful of what you wish for(esp in wartime)- your wish might come true! Who now remembers a (now conveniently forgotten) speech by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in 1940- in which he asked ...

Here's a joke I made up about the recent announcement of the establishment of a Sharia Court in Texas- how can you find it? Simple- just follow the trail of severed hands and heads!In reality, islamic...

Tomorrow of course is Friday the 13th, so all those triskedephobes(hope I spelt the word right-the word means those with a morbid fear of the number 13, esp when it comes to Friday the 13th).Long befo...

Full disclosure: I have NOT read the book "Fifty Shades Of Grey" or seen or particualrly care to see the film based upon it( due to open tomorrow at London's Leicester Square cinema) any more than I h...

Could anything have been done in retrospect to have prevented the forcible Sovietization of Eastern Europe( this week is the the 70th anniversary of the start of the ill fated -at least for Poles , Ba...

It now seems that the incoming US Defence Carter Ashton Carter will advise the Obama Administration to arm Ukraine.In my view this a good idea but just doesn't go far enough- what Ukraine needs to be ...